My search for "New" music - starting in 1980, finished though 1984 (1 Viewer)

[Mister CIA]

I can't wait until you discover Lloyd Cole.  You are going to love him.

ETA: Favorite Lloyd Cole song - Grace

 

[Mister CIA]

Favorite Lloyd Cole songs 2-5, in no particular order.

Perfect Skin

Rattlesnakes

Mr. Malcontent 

Like Lovers Do

 

[Andy Dufresne]

I loved John Waite’s Change maybe because the video was played so much. 

Good song.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

How can people listen to anything Kate Bush? Everything sounds like cats fighting or copulating.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

1982 Part 2

Only Time Will Tell - Asia

Only You - Yazoo

Private Investigations - Dire Straits

Red Skies - The Fixx

Stand or Fall - The Fixx

Talk Talk - Talk Talk

*The Writer - UFO

Valerie - Steve Winwood

*We Are 138 - Misfits

We Belong To The Night - UFO

When The Tigers Broke Free - Pink Floyd

Where The Sun Don't Shine - Ray Stevens

You Don't Want Me Anymore - Steel Breeze

 

[Andy Dufresne]

If I'd have known about UFO in the 80's I'm guessing I'd have listened to them a lot.

 

[Short Corner]

I loved John Waite’s Change maybe because the video was played so much. 

I prefer this one.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Not a lot from 1983. Mostly rediscovering songs I'd forgotten about. Enjoyed the bolded as "new" though.

1983

40 - U2

An Ending (Ascent) - Brian Eno

Baby Jane - Rod Stewart

Big Crash - Eddie Money

Blinded By A Lie - UFO

Catch Me I'm Falling - Real Life

Club Michelle - Eddie Money

Come Back And Stay - Paul Young

Don't Cry - Asia

Harry May - The Business

Heat - Soft Cell

How Can I Fall? - Breathe

Illegal Alien - Genesis

Information - Dave Edmunds

It Ain't Enough - Corey Hart

It Might Be You - Stephen Bishop

She Was Hot - The Rolling Stones

 

[Leroy Hoard]

What I do is start with the somewhat familiar on YouTube and then click on the side suggestions that are more obscure than my original search. And then keep going down that wormhole. You won't like everything but you will find a few fresh tunes to add to your playlist.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

What I do is start with the somewhat familiar on YouTube and then click on the side suggestions that are more obscure than my original search. And then keep going down that wormhole. You won't like everything but you will find a few fresh tunes to add to your playlist.

One thing that came up as I did that was this cool series...

What makes this song great.

 

[Despyzer]

Beyond Belief - Elvis Costello

Here's an insightful and analytical reflective from 2016

I really love this song.

 

[Despyzer]

How can people listen to anything Kate Bush? Everything sounds like cats fighting or copulating.

I've always liked this one: This Woman's Work

 

[Despyzer]

Talk Talk - Talk Talk

I really liked this whole album - kind of a moody synthpop sound with some heart and intelligence.

 

[El Floppo]

some great to really good albums from 1983... I'll try to come back and add songs

New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies (age of consent)

R.E.M., Murmur (radio free europe)

Echo & The Bunnymen, Porcupine (the cutter)

Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues (this must be the place)

David Bowie, Let’s Dance  (china girl)

The The, Soul Mining (uncertain smile)

Bauhaus, Burning from the Inside (she's in parties)

Cocteau Twins, Head over Heels (five ten fiftyfold)

Hüsker Dü, Everything Falls Apart (everything falls apart)

The Chameleons, Script of the Bridge (second skin)

Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombones (swordfishtrombones)

Aztec Camera, High Land, Hard Rain  (obvlivious)

XTC, Mummer (love on a farmboy's wages)

X, More Fun in the New World (the new world)

Minor Threat, Out of Step (out of step)

The Church, Seance (one day)

Billy Bragg, Life’s a Riot with Spy Vs Spy (milkman of human kindness)

Minutemen, What Makes a Man Start Fires? (the anchor)

Killing Joke, Fire Dances (dominator)

The Plimsouls, Everywhere at Once (a million miles away)

Bad Brains, Rock For Light (sailing on)

The Fall, Perverted by Language (eat yerself fitter)

The Go-Betweens, Before Hollywood (cattle and cane)

Circle Jerks, Golden Shower of Hits (coup d'etat)

Gang of Four, Hard (is it love)

Swans, Filth (power for power)

Pylon, Chomp (gyrate)

Jonathan Richman, Jonathan Sings! (those congo drums)

Fun Boy Three, Waiting (our lips are sealed)

The Danse Society, Heaven Is Waiting (heaven is waiting)

The Lords of the New Church, Is Nothing Sacred? (live for today)

Wire Train, In a Chamber (chamber of hellos)

Shriekback, Care (my spine is the bass line)

Malcolm McLaren, Duck Rock (double dutch)

Freur, Doot-Doot (doot doot)

added

Robert Seidler (christian boy)

 

[Brony]

some great to really good albums from 1983... I'll try to come back and add songs

outstanding year.  Great list Flop!

 

[Leroy Hoard]

some great to really good albums from 1983... 

Pylon, Chomp (gyrate)

The band from Athens that nobody talks about. They settle into some really good grooves.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOSARRZiC2g&list=PLF55FBEA8A3BF6F38&index=4

 

[El Floppo]

Just remembered this club tune from 1981 (thought it was 83)

Planet doesn't mind-  new musik

 

[skol asylum]

1981 sucked.

After that, I had to listen to three different versions of She Sells Sanctuary to remind myself I like music.

I guess I liked these two the best

Beautiful World - Devo

Suffer The Children - Tears for Fears

I did like finding "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Going To Be a Diamond Someday) - Billy Joe Shaver" because I always wondered if Jimmy Neutron was singing an actual song.

I remember the John Anderson version:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6fTFy2nIb245lkgNLSgK8u?si=CJaHEGHrRbepKJSMQRqclw

 

[Andy Dufresne]

some great to really good albums from 1983... I'll try to come back and add songs

New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies (age of consent)

The The, Soul Mining (uncertain smile)

The Church, Seance (one day)

Fun Boy Three, Waiting (our lips are sealed)

Wire Train, In a Chamber (chamber of hellos)

Freur, Doot-Doot (doot doot)

Robert Seidler (christian boy)

I give these a I really liked One Day.

I've liked "Doot, Doot" since it's use in Vanilla Sky.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

1984

Baby I Do - Alison Moyet

*Blitzkrieg - Metallica

Bobby Jean - Bruce Springsteen

Dance Me to the End of Love - Leonard Cohen

Deeper and Deeper - The Fixx

Girls - Dwight Twilley

Going Down to Liverpool - Bangles

*Heaven - The Psychedelic Furs

I Do' Wanna Know - REO Speedwagon

I Go Crazy - Queen

I Need You Tonight - Peter Wolf

*Living On A Thin Line - The Kinks

Ride On - Christy Moore

This Girl Gets Around - Sammy Hagar

What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths

Living on a Thin Line is my favorite from this group. The guitar riff, though simple, is really cool.

I Need You Tonight is a really catchy forgotten 80's song.

 

[Despyzer]

1984

I Go Crazy - Queen

This song never officially appeared on any Queen album. Brian May started tinkering with it when the band was writing songs for "The Game," but the rest of the band suggested he move on exclaiming that they would be ashamed to have to play it. Apparently it was under consideration for Hot Space (which would have been a horrible fit) and the The Works. Its only release came as the B side to "Radio Gaga," and May admits that was probably the best place for it. When The Works was re-issued in 1991, it was included as an extra track on the CD.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Strong run for Todd and Utopia ...

1980

Utopia - Adventures in Utopia

Utopia - Deface the Music (Beatles tribute)

1981

Todd Rundgren - Healing

1982

Utopia - Swing to the Right

Utopia - Utopia

1983

Todd Rundgren - The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect

1984

Utopia - Oblivion